Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history..

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in ….

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie..

Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard..

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished..

If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine, shred it, and flush it down the ….

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity..

A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six times, he becomes immortal. Randall ….

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle..

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it..

We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defea….

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most du….

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself..

He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it..

Those that are huntedKnow this as their life,Their reward: to walkUnder such trees in full knowledgeOf what is in glory above them,And to feel no fea….

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't ev….

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing i….

You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine..